Description of problem: In KDE Control Center -> Peripherals -> Mouse there is a tab labeled "Cordless Desktop Pro LX700". On that page all controls are disabled and a message is displayed: "You have a Logitech Mouse Connected, and libusb was found at compile time, but it was not possible to access this mouse. This is probably caused by a permissions problem - you should consult the manual on how to fix this." The mouse currently connected is Logitech VX notebook laser mouse. In the help section about Logitech panel, it says that the distribution (i.e. Fedora, in this case) must set up permissions so these options can be used. How reproducible: Every time
The "control-center" component is the GNOME control-center. Reassigning to kdebase, as I have no idea which package in KDE ships it.
kdebase is the correct component for kcontrol. Is this udev or hal not giving out the proper permissions to the device or is this kcontrol not being ACL-aware and thus thinking it has no permissions when it actually has them?
Currently, the Logitech CC needs console user perms that are unfortunately only implemented using (now obsolete) usb-hotplug. Consider filing a bugreport upstream (bugs.kde.org) and tell the author to add support for udev.
Can't we write the udev script ourselves? It shouldn't be too hard using the upstream-provided hotplug script as a reference. Other packages where upstream isn't providing the correct setup are doing exactly that.
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This is still disabled in F9 and F10 (we aren't building kdebase-workspace against libusb at all to avoid the non-working KCM - by the way, I see Lorenzo Villani enabled this in Rawhide, that's a bad idea, we deliberately kept it disabled!), still due to missing udev scripts.
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Added keyword, Tracking, to continue to document a purposely disabled feature
I don't use KDE anymore, this bug is irrelevant to me. Since it appears to be irrelevant to everyone else here, it's probably best to just close it
Closing per reporter's request